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Freeing of the Slaves
Artist
John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)
Title
Freeing of the Slaves
Object type mural
Date 1942
date QS:P571,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil and tempera on canvas
Dimensions 14 x 37 ft.
Reading room of the Law Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2nd floor of the Law Building (975 Bascom Mall)
Object history "Originally destined for the U.S. Department of Justice Building in 1936, the mural's design was rejected by federal officials who told Curry they feared that 'serious difficulties . . . might arise as a result of the racial implictions of the subject matter.' However, the design caught the attention of then-Law School Dean Lloyd Garrison, grandson of the famous abolitionist William LLoyd Garrison. . . . 'I felt from the beginning that the mural would be appropriate for the law building. Here is one of the great events in our constitutional history, an event fashioned in the midst of a national crisis by a great lawyer-president. The mural not only symbolizes that event but proclaims in a noble and patriotic setting the dignity and freedom of all persons, however humble, in a democracy whose ideals of liberty are summed up and protected by the Constitution'". "Curry wrote of the mural, which he created during World War II, 'I feel that in this painting I have made a work which is historically true, and I also feel it is prophetic of that which is to come'". (University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 2017), pp. 24-25, online here.)[dead link]
Credit line file upload: James Steakley
References University of Wisconsin-Madison public art website
Source/Photographer panoramic photo by Robin Davies, according to Law Library website
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